Sublime

and eloquently. He knows that God is always with him. He puts first things first—not the opinions of others but his relationship with his father.

true compassion: you did something, it cost you, and you suffered alongside.

I want you to be challenged by God’s greatness and love. I want you to understand that the only sane response to His love is a wholehearted devotion to Jesus. And I want you to see that the crazy people in this world are those who experience God’s love and remain complacent, not those who let go of all they have and follow Him completely.

“Grace is the favor shown by God to sinners.”2

churches that can thrive in our secular age.

Turn to God for help — not as a last resort but as a top priority.

Your God Is Too Small, the title of the popular book by J. B. Phillips some years ago, is a criticism that might be rightly made to many Christians and many churches. Out of pride in ourselves and our achievements and a culturally influenced belief in ourselves as “masters of our fate,” we have a hard time giving God his due.

explore how we can respond to anxiety, pain, and disappointment as Jesus would, and then apply some of those principles to our own situations.

A robust space for people who are between belief and unbelief can be a good thing. Not everyone needs to belong before they believe and behave, but many do.